Insert tunneled cv cath at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$6,520.95
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$14,491.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$365.70 with BCBS - Anthem vs $23,352.00 with Aetna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $365.70 | ↓ -94% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $401.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $401.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $449.81 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $449.81 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $7,426.68 | ↑ +14% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7,426.68 | ↑ +14% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $7,426.68 | ↑ +14% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $7,426.68 | ↑ +14% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $8,466.42 | ↑ +30% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $9,419.15 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $9,853.88 | ↑ +51% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care | $10,984.00 | ↑ +68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,529.00 | ↑ +77% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $11,592.80 | ↑ +78% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $12,317.35 | ↑ +89% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $12,317.35 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13,041.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $13,372.00 | ↑ +105% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Blue Gold | $13,528.00 | ↑ +107% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $13,537.00 | ↑ +108% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $13,911.36 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $13,911.36 | ↑ +113% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $14,149.00 | ↑ +117% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $14,491.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14,857.00 | ↑ +128% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $16,016.00 | ↑ +146% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17,296.00 | ↑ +165% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $23,174.00 | ↑ +255% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $23,245.51 | ↑ +256% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $23,352.00 | ↑ +258% |
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Insert tunneled cv cath at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $3,729.57 | $449.81 – $12,900.80 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $3,573.11 | $365.70 – $7,704.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $3,534.58 | $365.70 – $7,608.49 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $2,857.10 | $0.80 – $8,163.12 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $4,070.50 | $433.42 – $5,127.36 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $4,084.29 | $365.70 – $14,639.00 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $6,028.07 | $361.70 – $9,818.91 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $6,075.30 | $2,455.00 – $12,111.00 |